(Please do not reply to this notice here on the Mailing Lists. If you must discuss it, contact the manager of the List.) Have any of you been receiving the latest Netsky.D infection? It's been hitting hard and heavy. I've seen quite a few posts on other Mailing Lists about it and McAfee wasn't catching it. Neither were AOL's AV software or any other server's software. BUT..... my AVG Pro DID catch it! Hooray! (AVG Pro has been updated 5 times in the past 32 hours!) FOR YAHOO EMAIL USERS (and probably others): Netsky.D is faking emails from Yahoo about users' accounts. Here is what the fake email looks like: ********************************************** Dear user of Yahoo.com, Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in next three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your account information. For details see the attached file. Attached file protected with the password for security reasons. Password is 66482. The Management, The Yahoo.com team http://www.yahoo.com Attachment TextDocument.zip .zip file Scan and Download Attachment Scan and Save to my Yahoo! Briefcase ********************************************** DO NOT OPEN THE SUPPOSED TEXTDOCUMENT.ZIP !!!!! It is the Netsky.D virus!!!!! If you open it, you are infected immediately. Netsky.D will probably be sending itself purporting to be from other email services. Do not click on the attachment! Do not do ANYTHING with the email except delete it. If your Anti- Virus program is working AND has been updated during the past few hours, the AV program probably caught it. As of this morning McAfee hadn't updated virus definitions for it. They probably have by now. Regards, SgtGeorge -- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 7.0.225 / Virus Database: 262.1.3 - Release Date: 3/3/04
You are sooooo... right. It is nasty. It infected ten of my McAfee files. It was a bad week. First I was hit with the Six Buttons to Hell JsTrojan Windowbomb worm which rode in on a program I downloaded from Evrsoft. Also found and located practically at the same time was an Eicar virus and an undesirable program called Mastermatejoke in my _Restore/Archives. Now, I rarely ever open an attachment unless I am fairly certain what it is. And I had Norton AntiVirus and ZoneAlarm FireWall on my computer. Lost Netscape and my Norton files started acting up and bought McAfee Security Suite that on the second pass through caught the Netsky virus that was in its own files. I worked for days and was finally able to access and delete the Restore files. My printer stopped working and my monitor locked into a 640x480 resolution. Finally uninstalled my Windows ME program intending to go clear down to Dos but fortunately had a n older version that was not infected on my computer. And my printer and monitor came back to life and working fairly well now after I downloaded all my data files and I had ordered a new computer. This old computer is the one that I am going to use on line. My new computer is NOT going on line as I don't want to risk my many photo projects that I am working on. Both my son and my daughter's companies have been hit by the virus. I was deleting 4-8 viruses a day that was being sent to me and thought I was being very alert and still it got me. Norma Jennings